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Japan's nuclear power stations, Sheppey grammar places and actor Gemma Jones

Twenty girls from the Isle of Sheppey who passed the Kent test are denied grammar school places. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is questioned on the problems caused by December's heavy snowfall.

Twenty girls from the Isle of Sheppey who passed the Kent test are denied grammar school places. Reporter Alex Ward talks to one of the girls who is appealing the decision.

Transport Secretary and Surrey MP Philip Hammond is questioned by a House of Commons select committee about the problems caused by December's heavy snowfall.

Dominic King talks to Professor Paddy Regan, a nuclear physicist at the University of Surrey, about the damage to Japan's nuclear power stations by the tsunami that hit the country's eastern coast.

Dom chats to actor Gemma Jones about her role in Woody Allen's latest film. Gemma recently played Connie in the TV series Spooks, as well as Bridget Jones's mother in Bridget Jones's Diary. Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is in cinemas from Friday.

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Mon 14 Mar 2011 16:00

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  • Mon 14 Mar 2011 16:00